St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-14
THE SPATES FARM WINS.
The Reform School Commission
Chooses Site - Some Hot
Words.

The Reform School Commission
Chooses a Site - Some Hot
Words.
At $50 o'clock yesterday afternoon
the commissioners for relocating the
reform school returned from Red Wing,
where they went yesterday morning to
examine the various sites, and proceed
ing to room Is, began balloting. The
commissioners wrote their preference
twelve times before site was decided
upon. The SpateS farm won at last, the
last receiving out of votes. The site
is situated about three miles and 4 half
west of Red Wing on the line of the
Chicago, Milwaukee, &St. Paul railroad.
1t consists of about 600 acres, and will
cost upwards of $4,000.
The location is hardly satisfactory to
some members of the commission and
members OF the board of directors, as it
is above the railroad about 200 feet and
not easy of access. President Murray
told the Spates advocates that the re
form school property now owned by the
state would not be sold until they had
succeeded i'll getting the railroad COM
pany to put i'll side tracks and other ia
cilitieS for getting at the school build-
ing.
Il. c. Davis, of Pennington, claimed
that Mr.. Libby had sold out to the Red
Wing faction. 1t is claimed that Libby
said that if after second ballot Hastings
stood no show of getting the school, he
would vote for Pennington. On the
fifth ballot Red Wing had 4, Farming
ton and Hastings vote, and, it is
claimed, rather than see the school go
to Pennington Libby cast his vote for
Pol Winu Davis charcoal ihhy with
selling Dakota county out yesterday
afternoon, and claimed that he would
make it merry dancing for him in the
eastern part of the county, hereafter.
Libby told him to go ahead and he
would dance. He claimed that he had
voted the way he wanted to, and was
not ashamed of it.
At an evening session of the commits
Si0nerS resolution was adopted pro-
yiding for the purchase of the SpateS
and Gore farms under the terms of the
| bill. This morning all the papers will
be turned over to Corporation Attorney
Murray by Secretary Hoyt, and the
laborS of the commissioners
WILL THUS BE CONCLUDED.
Now matters are left in the hands of
the board of managers of the reform
| school, and last evening they exhibited
plans of the building that will shortly
be inaugurated at the new location.
There will be sixteen buildings in all,
fourteen being grouped around the main
building, in front of which will be
| the offices, and stone and brick
will be used in their construction.
| 1t is expected that the cost of erecting
the necessary buildings will be about
| $500, 900 and to meet this, the property
now owned by the Institution between
ST. Paul and Minneapolis will be dis
posed of and it is expected to realize
fully half million dollars.
Arrangements will be made to place
from thirty to fifty of the inmates in the
new cottages which will be adjacent to
the main building and the boys will be
taught some light manufacturing, such
as timing and woodwork, but more of
their time will be devoted to stock and
diversified farming. The latter was one
of the principal reasons fer bringing
about a change from the present locality
and the board of managers hope, with
| the quantity of land at its disposal, to
make the reform school all that it should
| be for its inmates benefit. 1t is also
| intended to beautify and otherwise i'm
prove the new site which is said to be
one of the most eligibly located in the
| state and one which commands view
| of the surrounding country for miles.